Tombstone (1993)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 129m
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Cast: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Charlton Heston
Synopsis:
Wyatt Earp retires and moves out west with his brothers and their wives to make their fortune in the booming frontier town of Tombstone before moving on. However, the unruly antics of a loose association of outlaws known as The Cowboys make it increasingly difficult for them to turn their backs on their past as lawmen.
Review:
Coming out at the same time as Kasdan's more self-consciously mythic Wyatt Earp, Cosmatos's conventionally rousing Western sports some impressive moustaches and full-blooded gun battles, while harking back to John Ford in Billy Zane's Shakespeare-spouting travelling player. It also has the most stylishly erudite and dandyish Doc Holliday on film in the person of Kilmer, who effortlessly steals every scene he is in. Notwithstanding his ironic presence, however, and the summary justice meted out to the Cowboys, it is less a revisionist version of the oft-told tale than another, Reaganite, ringing of the changes.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 129m
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Cast: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Charlton Heston
Synopsis:
Wyatt Earp retires and moves out west with his brothers and their wives to make their fortune in the booming frontier town of Tombstone before moving on. However, the unruly antics of a loose association of outlaws known as The Cowboys make it increasingly difficult for them to turn their backs on their past as lawmen.
Review:
Coming out at the same time as Kasdan's more self-consciously mythic Wyatt Earp, Cosmatos's conventionally rousing Western sports some impressive moustaches and full-blooded gun battles, while harking back to John Ford in Billy Zane's Shakespeare-spouting travelling player. It also has the most stylishly erudite and dandyish Doc Holliday on film in the person of Kilmer, who effortlessly steals every scene he is in. Notwithstanding his ironic presence, however, and the summary justice meted out to the Cowboys, it is less a revisionist version of the oft-told tale than another, Reaganite, ringing of the changes.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 129m
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Cast: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Charlton Heston
Synopsis:
Wyatt Earp retires and moves out west with his brothers and their wives to make their fortune in the booming frontier town of Tombstone before moving on. However, the unruly antics of a loose association of outlaws known as The Cowboys make it increasingly difficult for them to turn their backs on their past as lawmen.
Review:
Coming out at the same time as Kasdan's more self-consciously mythic Wyatt Earp, Cosmatos's conventionally rousing Western sports some impressive moustaches and full-blooded gun battles, while harking back to John Ford in Billy Zane's Shakespeare-spouting travelling player. It also has the most stylishly erudite and dandyish Doc Holliday on film in the person of Kilmer, who effortlessly steals every scene he is in. Notwithstanding his ironic presence, however, and the summary justice meted out to the Cowboys, it is less a revisionist version of the oft-told tale than another, Reaganite, ringing of the changes.